In what is now a vacant, grassy lot just a few minutes walk from the Cottage Grove Green Line station in Woodlawn, Gwendolyn Brooks - one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century - lived in a two-room kitchenette from 1941 to 1948. The resulting list below isn’t a guide to Chicago’s “best books,” but an attempt to map the diversity of actual locations which lie behind some of the most powerful and noteworthy writing about the city.Ī Street in Bronzeville (1945), Gwendolyn Brooks I wanted to explore Chicago’s literary past - on foot. This summer, I wanted to see where Chicago literature has grappled with those faces over the last 100 years. In the words of Nelson Algren, Chicago “forever keeps two faces” - one of joy, and one of pain.
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